# Minister of Public Works and Infrastructure Dean Macpherson has ordered an investigation into Morial Infrastructure Group. This follows the company’s links to businessman Lawrence Mudzingayima, who was caught on video threatening a group of women at a restaurant in Sandton, Johannesburg. Macpherson has expressed concern over allegations that the company obtained multiple gradings from […]
# A 36-year-old man was arrested for allegedly raping 14 women in KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng. Police say the man allegedly committed his first attack in Mahlabathini, KwaZulu-Natal, in January 2010. He was arrested but released on bail before absconding from court. Spokesperson Robert Netshiunda says while out on bail, the suspect allegedly raped seven women […]
# The Gauteng government has welcomed the breakthrough in the police’s murder investigation involving the ninth victim in the series of murder cases involving women in Ekurhuleni. A man and two women have been arrested in connection with the murder of 28-year-old Gracious Nkomo, whose body was found in Dawn Park, Boksburg, last week. Provincial […]
# Swimming: China’s 13-year-old Yu Zidi won the 200-metres butterfly on the opening day of the Asian Games in Nagoya, Japan, setting a new Games record of two-minutes-05.08-seconds. This is almost half a second off compatriot Zhang Yufei’s mark from three years ago. Yu became the youngest-ever swimmer to win a medal at the World […]
# Forum for South Africa vra dringende regeringsingryping nadat 21-persent meer oproepe reeds dié maand in die Geslagsgeweld-sentrum aangemeld is. Voorlopige syfers van die Departement van Maatskaplike Ontwikkeling toon die sentrum het tussen 1 en 16 September gemiddeld 424 oproepe per dag ontvang teenoor 350 in Augustus. Die organisasie se leier, Tebogo Mashilompane, sê die […]
# Die parlementêre portefeuljekomitee oor Indiensneming en Arbeid vra die publiek om kommentaar te lewer oor die Wysigingswet op Indiensnemingsdienste. Dis ʼn belangrike stap om wetgewing te formuleer wat die land se arbeidsmigrasie-raamwerk hervorm. Die voorgestelde wetgewing wil die indiensneming van buitelandse burgers reguleer. Dit wil ook die basiese Wet op Indiensnemingsdienste van 2014 bywerk […]
# The Forum for South Africa is calling for urgent government action following a 21-percent increase in calls to the Gender-Based Violence Command Centre in September. Preliminary figures from the Department of Social Development show the centre received six-thousand-782 calls between the first and 16th of September, an average of 424 calls a day, compared […]
# Voorlopige uitslae in Rusland se eerste parlementêre oorlogstyd-verkiesing, toon die hoofparty in die Kremlin oorheers die verkiesing. Volgens aanvanklike inligting deur die Sentrale Verkiesingskommissie is die Verenigde Rusland-party, wat president Vladimir Putin ondersteun, die voorloper met bykans 58-persent van die stemme. Betekenisvolle opposisie bestaan feitlik nie in Moskou nie, met kritici wat verbied word […]
# Die Departement van Maatskaplike Ontwikkeling waarsku gemeenskappe om nie stil te bly oor geslagsgeweld en vrouemoord of dit te ignoreer nie. Die 24-uur Geslagsgeweld-sentrum het tussen 1 en 16 September ʼn aansienlike toename in oproepe aangemeld, naamlik ses-duisend-782 oproepe wat neerkom op gemiddeld 424 per dag. Die departement se woordvoerder, Sandy Godlwana, sê dis […]
